AMD Radeon Pro W5500M vs AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500M and AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1450 MHz vs 1340 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 185 Watt

Launch date	10 Feb 2020 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed	1450 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 51% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 127.6 GTexel/s
Around 64% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1408
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)

Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 127.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2304 vs 1408
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W5500M	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9943
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9943
Geekbench - OpenCL	45724
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3510

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W5500M	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Navi 14	Polaris 20
Launch date	10 Feb 2020	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	400	683
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$301.69
Price now		$169.99
Value for money (0-100)		62.57
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1450 MHz	1340 MHz
Compute units	22	36
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	255.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.166 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.083 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408	2304
Pixel fill rate	46.40 GPixel/s	42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate	127.6 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	5,700 million
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size		large
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready